Brief for Indian Law and Policy Professors as Amici Curiae Supporting Petitioner in United States v. Cooley
Amici curiae are 25 scholars who teach, write, and/or practice in the area of federal Indian law and federal Indian policy.
Research
Pretrial Detention, Pretrial Release & Public Safety
As a growing number of jurisdictions across the country have attempted to implement bail reforms, debates have intensified about the relationship between such reforms and crime, including and perhaps
Four Facts about Human Capital
This paper synthesizes what economists have learned about human capital since Becker (1962) into four stylized facts.
Coverage of New Drugs in Medicare Part D
Medicare Part D is an outpatient prescription drug benefit for older Americans covering more than 46 million beneficiaries.
What can developing cities today learn from the urban past?
The downsides of density, including traffic congestion, contagious disease and crime, were common in Victorian London and classical Rome, just as they are today in Sao Paulo and Lagos.
Leading with Intentionality: The 4P Framework for Strategic Leadership
The ability to exercise leadership effectively requires skills and capacities that must be developed; they are not innate.
Public Procurement in Law and Practice
We examine a new dataset of public procurement laws, practice, and outcomes in 187 countries. We measure regulation as restrictions on the discretion of the procuring entities.
JUE Insight: The (non-)effect of opportunity zones on housing prices
Will the Opportunity Zones (OZ) program, America’s largest new place-based policy in decades, generate neighborhood change?
Good if you can get it: Benefits and inequalities in the expansion of paid sick leave during COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has focused attention on the important role that frontline retail, grocery, food service, and delivery workers play in the U.S.
The Limits of Ban-the-Box Legislation
Nationwide, 36 states and over 150 cities and counties have adopted what is widely known as “Ban the Box” (BtB).
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